Dear Comrades!

2020 2h 1m RU

👍

7.1

SOLID

🔥

93%

CERTIFIED FRESH

💯

METACRITIC

⭐

7.4

IMDB

★7.1TMDB · 163🍅93%Rotten Tomatoes●82Metacritic★7.4IMDB · 6,564

HistoryDrama

Synopsis

Spoiler shield

When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre that ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

WhatsApp X Facebook Telegram

Where to watch · US

Cast

Yuliya Vysotskaya
Lyudmila 'Lyuda' Danilovna Semina
Sergei Erlish
Lyuda's father
Yulia Burova
Svetka
Andrei Gusev
Viktor
Vladislav Komarov
Oleg Nikolaevich Loginov
Dmitry Kostyaev
Вячеслав Пигарев
Владимир Бабаев

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Writers: Andrei Konchalovsky, Elena Kiseleva
Languages: Russian
Countries: Russia

Want more? Switch to Cinephile mode in the header for DP, composer, budget, box office, production companies, keywords, and release history.

Did you know?

Fun facts 🍿

1 / 7

MONEY

Did you know

Shot for just $2.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

MoodPlayr · trivia#01

2 / 7

MONEY

Did you know

Earned back only 15% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

MoodPlayr · trivia#02

3 / 7

ERA

Did you know

Released 6 years ago.

MoodPlayr · trivia#03

4 / 7

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, shot by Andrey Naydenov. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

MoodPlayr · trivia#04

5 / 7

DIRECTOR

Did you know

Editor Karolina Maciejewska shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

MoodPlayr · trivia#05

6 / 7

CAST

Did you know

Yuliya Vysotskaya and Sergei Erlish and Yulia Burova carry the top of the cast.

MoodPlayr · trivia#06

7 / 7

WILD

Did you know

IMDB entry: tt10796286 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

MoodPlayr · trivia#07

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Andrei Konchalovsky directs. Andrey Naydenov behind the camera. Karolina Maciejewska cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in Russia. Dialogue in Russian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $2.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Earned back only 15% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 6 years ago.
4Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, shot by Andrey Naydenov. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Editor Karolina Maciejewska shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Yuliya Vysotskaya and Sergei Erlish and Yulia Burova carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt10796286 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Andrey Naydenov
Editing: Karolina Maciejewska
Production design: Irina Ochina
Costume design: Konstantin Mazur
Makeup / hair: Galina Ponomaryova
Runtime: 121 min · 2h 1m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $2,000,000
Box office: $296,974
Return: 15% of budget
Original language: RU
IMDB: Dear Comrades! (2020)
Rotten Tomatoes: 93% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 82/100
IMDB rating: 7.4/10 · 6,564 votes

Awards

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award. 13 wins & 33 nominations total

Meeting Point Europe Award

Individual records documented via Wikidata; the summary above may count more.

Also by

Andrei Konchalovsky

Stills · wallpapers

Selected frames

Full-resolution frames — open one to save it as a wallpaper.

Wallpaper

Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

Community reviews

What people are saying

badelf2021-11-15
★ 10/10
This is an amazing story, incredibly well-told. The script, the visual story-telling and the acting are all first class. It's well worth watching to understand how we, as humans, get sucked in by the rhetoric of a "government". This aspect of our collective history has not changed since Hitler was alive. It's current in China, and even was operating in the USA when Trump was present. It's not hard to draw these parallels. I loved the decision to go B&W! - it makes it all that much more palatable for us to digest the relevance to our own time.
CinemaSerf2024-05-24
★ 7/10
It's the USSR in the early 1960s and though the Soviet Union is sending messages to the world of it's success, it's citizens are frequently on the verge of starvation. Even the most ardent of Communist party supporters find it hard when the government puts up the prices, but the wages remain static. This proves the final straw for some factory workers in a small town, who dare to go on strike. Not only that, but they invade the local party HQ where they are disgusted to find the occupants have a supply of cognac and Hungarian sausage. This is all quite traumatising for the loyalist "Lyudmila" (Yulia Vysotskaya) who is a died in the wool supporter but who is genuinely quite abhorred by the military's reaction - a feeling only augmented when she discovers that her young daughter has gone missing. Was she caught up in the silent aftermath? Unlike many, she still has some freedom of movement in this now locked-down town, and so we follow her increasingly desperate search for the girl and encounter the might of a state that brooks no resistance to it's authority. It's a pretty potent indictment of the tyrannical state that uses indoctrination to thrive, and of one that has no compunction when it comes to killing to retain and demonstrate control. It's not necessarily anti-Communist in itself, more anti-authoritarian. It encourages "Lyudmila" (and us) to consider the old adage about absolute power, of fear and retribution. Using a documentary style of photography, Andrey Konchalovskiy clearly has his own views on the Soviet state to impart here, but that message is easily transferred to dictatorships the world over, and with a strong and progressively emotional effort from Vyotskaya as a woman whose life is now upside down, whose values have been challenged and whose priorities have been well and truly shaken, is quite powerfully presented. Blood won't clean easily from asphalt - so you need to re-tarmac the street!